This season’s most noteworthy happenings in beauty

From luxe foundations that brave the elements to skin-loving mists inspired by Indian blooms, this month’s beauty edit is all about sensorial satisfaction with a special touch of luxury. Whether you're after a flawless finish or a quick skincare purchase, these new drops deliver impact with intention.

Get on board the toasty glam train

This summer, go for a sunkissed look inspired by the rich, radiant tones that evoke the shimmer of a golden sunset. Toasty Glam is all about tonal uniformity in warm bronzy hues: A creamy base, terracotta blush, smudged brown eyeshadow, and a glossy nude or cocoa lip. Everything blends together with your fingertips for that easy, melt-into-the-skin finish. No sparkle, no harsh lines, just heat, glow, and the right amount of nude lip.

An India debut we love

Prada Beauty launches in India with a standalone boutique at Nexus Select CityWalk, New Delhi. Known for questioning conventions and driving radical elegance, the brand’s complete range of fragrances, skincare, and make-up on offer makes it worth the wait for mindful beauty enthusiasts. Additionally, the space reflects Prada’s design-led approach to identity and self-expression.

Your face, a flawless canvas

A new addition to the Devotion line, Dolce & Gabbana’s Everlast Foundation offers full coverage with a lightweight feel. The soft matte texture gives a dewy finish that claims to hold up against humidity, oil, and longwear. The formula is designed to blend easily, and resists transfer without caking or settling into lines. It’s well-suited for those who prefer their base flawless, functional, and quietly luxe. With 40 thoughtfully formulated shades, the range is inclusive too.

Dolce & Gabbana Everlast Foundation, ₹5,100

A whiff of summer for you? 

What if your skincare felt like a soft bouquet? Forest Essentials’ new Mogra range does just that—and is a love letter to one of India’s most evocative blooms. Rooted in Ayurvedic rituals, the range offers nourishing body cream, silkening oil, hydrating mists, and more. The line-up promises a sensorial escape designed to soothe, nourish, and envelop you in a hint of twilight. Our pick from the collection is the cooling body mist. 

Forest Essentials Cooling Body Mist Mogra, ₹3,275

Can we interest you some on-the-go regeneration?

What if we could ditch the 12-step skincare ritual and still get the same results with only two steps? It seems iS Clinical has heard us. The new Active Peel System is a two-step treatment built on balance and precision. Step 1: It blends glycolic, salicylic, and lactic acids to gently exfoliate and refine texture. Step 2: It delivers hydration and recovery through hyaluronic acid, glycerin, and peptides. Each peel is individually packed into compact sachets, making it an ideal travel accompaniment.

iS Clinical Active Peel System, ₹9,369

A chic new arrival

Gucci Beauty has finally arrived in India with the launch of its first boutique in New Delhi, located at Nexus Select Citywalk Mall in Saket. The store has the label’s extensive portfolio of make-up, fragrances, and skincare—including signature products like Rouge à Lèvres Liquide Mat, and the Alchemist’s Garden scents—catering to India’s growing beauty consumers. Not just shopping, the store offers an immersive experience, be it booking makeovers, personalising select items, or exploring gifting collections.

A personalised smart blush? Yes, please.

Beauty is the latest to hop onto the pH-powered make-up trend. PIXI Beauty's new On The Glow Blush adjusts to the skin’s natural tone, offering a personalised flush with minimal effort. More than just reactive colour, the formula is infused with ginseng to revitalise, aloe vera to calm, and fruit extracts to nourish—blending make-up with skincare, in line with the brand’s ethos. Vitamin-rich and antioxidant-packed, it delivers a smooth, blendable texture with an impressive one-sweep payoff. The result is a balanced and wearable blush that is functional too.

PIXI Beauty On-The-Glow Blush in Cheektone, ₹2,050

In Pursuit of Glass Skin

Kiehl’s expands its Clearly Corrective range with a new entrant: The Triple Acid Pre-Serum. With 8 per cent AHA, BHA, and PHA, it aims to target uneven texture, dullness, and visible pores across multiple layers of the skin. Copper gluconate helps keep irritation in check. It’s designed for daily use, making exfoliation less of a risk and more of a routine.

Kiehl’s Clearly Corrective™ Daily Re-Texturizing Triple Acid Peel, ₹5,500

A new Korean skin superfood is here

Korean skincare brand Dr.Jart+ enters the firming category with a bakuchiol-led formula aimed at retinol-wary users. Known for barrier-focused care, the brand takes a measured turn toward line-smoothing without irritation. It’s not a reinvention, but a recalibration.

Dr.Jart+ Prejuvenation Firming Bakuchiol Cream, ₹4,800

Matcha has entered the lipcare chat

As our coffee runs go through a matcha makeover, maybe it’s time we take note of the skincare benefits of the viral ingredient too. Laneige introduces a Matcha Bubble Tea variant to its best selling Lip Sleeping Mask. Matcha offers a subtly earthy freshness, while Bubble Tea delivers a nostalgic, sweet twist. The texture remains plush and non-sticky, offering a veil of hydration and soft luminosity to your lips. 

Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, Matcha Bubble Tea, ₹1,420

A shimmering body oil we love

L’Occitane has introduced something we didn’t know we needed: a shimmer oil that feels quietly indulgent. Enriched with sweet almond oil from Provence and the Mediterranean basin, it melts into the skin to make it soft, supple, and shine with a subtle glow. Infused with the gourmand almond scent and made with 98 per cent natural-origin ingredients, this dry-touch oil is light enough to layer or wear on its own. It’s a limited-edition body care essential that captures the magic of golden hour in every drop.

L’Occitane Almond Shimmering Body Oil, ₹4,700

A fruitful escape with the chicest twist

A much-needed break from the usual floral fragrances that are usually released this time of the year, Diptyque’s new perfume arrives just in time for the heat. The limited-edition L’Eau des Hesperides is a repackaged version of the house’s crisp citrus classic, released in 2008, in a bottle worthy of collecting. Artist Marie-Victoire de Bascher’s whimsical packaging turns the fragrance bottle into a work of art. Part of Diptyque’s new Summer Fruit Garden collection, the Eau de Toilette is packed with citrusy freshness and spicy undertones. Less tropical escape, more terracotta terrace at golden hour, the scent is light yet dimensional. The collection also includes shampoo, lip oil, hand and body gel, and body spray. With this collection, the brand transforms summer into an art of living. Each creation in this line is an ode to abundance and simplicity. 

Diptyque L’Eau des Hesperides Dream Summer Garden Edition Eau de Toilette, ₹14,800 for 100ml

 

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